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Sayreville's Crump gets scholarship offer from Rutgers

Sayreville’s Linwood Crump (left) and Colin Winslow (right) took second and first place, respectively, in the Group IV Boys 100-meter race at the NJSIAA Central Jersey Groups I and IV championships.
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Former Sayreville High School football star Linwood Crump, who committed last week to Temple University, has received a scholarship offer from Rutgers head coach Chris Ash, according to Scout.com national recruiting analyst Brian Dohn.

"I talk to coach Ash a lot," Crump told Dohn. "He told me that I'm definitely a player who can play in their program. They love the way I play after seeing film and tape on me, and they feel like I have great character and I'm definitely a kid they want in their program. It means a lot to say I have great character and I'm a great player. That is always something I like to hear.”

Earlier this month, the Scarlet Knights were able to flip former Piscataway star Elorm Lumor, a 2014 Home News Tribune All-Area selection at defensive end who had committed to Temple after spending a year at Milford Academy.

According to Dohn, who last week tweeted that Crump’s commitment was “a nice pickup for Temple,” the star defensive back moved from Sayreville to Piscataway before the start of the 2015-16 academic year. Shawn Brown of Rivals.com said last week via Twitter that Crump’s commitment to Temple “could be the steal of” New Jersey.

As a junior defensive back and running back at Sayreville in 2014, Crump was the team’s second-leading rusher (236 yards on 26 carries) and second-leading scorer (two touchdowns) behind recent Ole Miss commit Myles Hartsfield. That 2014 season was shortened to three games following a hazing and sexual assault scandal at the high school.

As a sophomore in 2013, Crump was Sayreville’s second-leading receiver (19 catches for 238 yards) and was fourth on the team with 38 tackles. The Bombers had their string of three consecutive sectional titles snapped at the end of the season with a semifinal playoff loss to eventual Central Group V runner-up Manalapan.

Hartsfield and Crump were half of Sayreville’s stellar 4x100 relay team that won state Group IV (42.60) and Greater Middlesex Conference (42.43) titles and placed third in the large-schools finals at the Penn Relays (42.48).

Crump also ran the 100, 200 and 400 meters for Sayreville, which in 2014 won the school’s first-ever Group IV track and field championship.

His 49-second time in the 400 meters is regarded as a benchmark for excellence in the event. According to his HUDL page, Crump (6 feet, 165 pounds) owns a 4.5-second time in the 40-yard dash.

Around the time Crump announced his commitment on Twitter, Temple head coach Matt Rhule, who is prohibited under NCAA rules from commenting on recruits until they sign a National Letter of Intent, tweeted from his personal account, “We just got faster!” The tweet was likely a reference to Crump.